Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection.

Abstract:

:A characteristic case of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in a previously healthy, 25-year-old man is presented. The patient progressed from influenza-like symptoms to irreversible septic shock and death within 24 hours. His spleen had been removed nine years earlier because of abdominal trauma. Aggressive therapy, including IV fluids, antibiotics, vasopressers, steroids, heparin, packed red blood cells, platelets, cryoprecipitates, and fresh frozen plasma, failed to alter the course of this fulminant septic syndrome. The cause, treatment, and certain prevention options are presented.

journal_name

Ann Emerg Med

authors

Stryker RM,Orton DW

doi

10.1016/s0196-0644(88)80304-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-02-01 00:00:00

pages

161-4

issue

2

eissn

0196-0644

issn

1097-6760

pii

S0196-0644(88)80304-4

journal_volume

17

pub_type

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